Tod Dockstader

(From interview with Chris Cutler, in 'Unfiled')

"Why I started was because I really wanted to make a kind of music, and I was worried about being an unlettered primitive and so I shouldn't call it any kind of "Music" what I was doing. I wanted to make music out of sound, instead of sound out of music, which is what people who write music intend to do…

I liked air-moving sounds. I liked the way they breathe and occupy the space around them. Particularly when I slowed them down, all those fine partials were revealed, changing in time, with the room tone in them, the music in them. Just changing the pitch of a sound doesn't reveal its secrets, at least not for me. For me, acoustic sound, working in it, there's a built in something, emotion, in it. It talks to me."